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by adtac 5d ago
but you can click the link and reveal the information. what is being hidden? from who?
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by adtac 5d ago
why is this such a bad thing? it's not really any different from using a uuid as a user facing key, which basically everyone does. and trying to protect your moat isn't automatically a bad thing. they clearly feel it's helpin
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by adtac 4mo ago
LOC is the worst metric for engineering output, except for all the others - Churchill
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by adtac 7mo ago
> camcorders have been around for ages but you don't have millions of directors around just because you make a tool more accessible tiktok alone has 1.5 million directors! it's just that we call them creators now. the meaning
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by adtac 9mo ago
i got to try exe a while back and i have to say, the "Login with exe" [1] is probably the most magic thing i've seen since tailscale :) [1] https://exe.dev/docs/login-with-exe
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by adtac 9mo ago
ed is the standard Unix text editor.
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by adtac 10mo ago
December 2018 was the last version to not have "Development of safe artificial intelligence to benefit humanity" https://web.archive.org/web/20181223120124/http://www.muskfo...
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by adtac 11mo ago
too many of these vaguely look like what galaxies look like from earth e.g. https://i.imgur.com/ZjiBF8f.png just a coincidence?
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by adtac 11mo ago
weekend hackernews best hackernews
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by adtac 11mo ago
if you haven't read the factorio devblog before, please do! after HN, it's one of my favourite places on the internet because i constantly learn new, random, insane things almost every time. imho it teaches you how to think + sh
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Deterministic multithreading is hard (2024)(factorio.com)
115 points by adtac 11mo ago|13 comments
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by adtac 11mo ago
> or endeavor to you picked the worst example company to complain about how they're are not trying lol. just in 2025 from anthropic: Circuit Tracing: Revealing Computational Graphs in Language Models https://transformer
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by adtac 11mo ago
>Note that there isn’t the slightest attempt to explain the planet trajectories (specifically, why the planets keep ending up where they do regardless of how many epicycles you bolt on) from a theoretical perspective. My impression is th
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by adtac 1y ago
Why not something dumb like this: https://chatgpt.com/share/68b60199-b6ac-8009-b50d-3e7cfff1d7... (gpt-4o)
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by adtac 1y ago
wow not even yin-yang can escape entropy or the heat death of the universe
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Firefox bug that's 24 years old(bugzilla.mozilla.org)
2 points by adtac 1y ago|0 comments
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by adtac 1y ago
>That's basically your documents lossily encoded. Vector embeddings are lossy encodings of documents roughly in the same way a SHA256 hash is a lossy encoding. It's virtually impossible to reverse the embedding vector to recove
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by adtac 1y ago
if you feel cheated now, I promise you'll feel more cheated if they did this after you rely on it for several months. the least worst option is to change pricing as early as possible.
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by adtac 1y ago
this is just XMPP and it has been around for years before Slack was even a thing Slack won anyway for the same reasons most centralised, commercial, closed sourced products often win: less fragmentation, more marketing, stronger network eff
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RFC 1392: Internet Users' Glossary(rfc-editor.org)
4 points by adtac 1y ago|1 comments
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by adtac 1y ago
clicked hoping for an out of distribution argument for why a specific type of Japanese martial arts is perfect for git users :( good article nonetheless!
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by adtac 1y ago
1. modern computers are insanely fast 2. they compiled a version of the kernel with as many configurable options disabled as possible 3. modern computers are insanely fast
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Assembly interpreter inside of TypeScript's type system(judehunter.dev)
2 points by adtac 1y ago|0 comments
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by adtac 1y ago
1. PG is implicitly talking about good essays. And it's very hard to write a good essay if you don't believe it's true. 2. Whether something is true has nothing to do with whether the reader knows it. I know many false th
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HTTP/2 connection preface and settings handshake(subtrace.dev)
2 points by adtac 1y ago|0 comments
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by adtac 1y ago
this is like saying "same way cells know how to be anything - quantum electrodynamics"
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Chinese Academic Espionage at Stanford(stanfordreview.org)
22 points by adtac 1y ago|5 comments
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Show HN: npx -y @considered/harmful(npmjs.com)
6 points by adtac 1y ago|1 comments
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npx -y @considered/harmful(npmjs.com)
1 points by adtac 1y ago|0 comments
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by adtac 2y ago
> Our models will be available under an Apache 2.0 license. ^ from the post https://github.com/SesameAILabs/csm is empty for now, but I imagine they'll be releasing it soon: https://x.com/_apkum

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